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Los
Angeles, CA – Oprah Winfrey sits down with fellow cast members
from “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” including Academy Award-winner Forest
Whitaker & David Oyelowo along with Academy Award-nominated director
Lee Daniels, on an all-new episode of “Oprah’s
Next Chapter,”
airing this Sunday, August 11 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah
Winfrey Network.

In the
interview, Oprah, Forest, Lee and David discuss the making of the
highly anticipated feature film, “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” which
will be released nationwide on Friday,
August 16. They talk about filming in New Orleans with an
all-star cast including John Cusack, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jane Fonda,
Terrence Howard, Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz, Robin Williams, James
Marsden, Alan Rickman, Vanessa Redgrave and Liev Schreiber and how
they were able to depict the journey of one man, Cecil Gaines, who
served eight presidents as the White House's head butler. Plus,
viewers are taken behind-the-scenes for an exclusive look at how
Oprah was aged to appear 95 years-old for her character.

EXCERPT: Forest Whitaker: This Movie
Is How We Protest

Oprah: I read somewhere that
you said, Forest, that this movie is about how we protest. What did
you mean by that?

Forest: I mean, there's
different ways of protest. And I think, more importantly, I should
have said it's a call for us to recognize that we need to stand up
at times for issues and social injustice. This man is doing it by
his mere presence. Sometimes by your simple presence, you can shift
an environment. It’s a part of a movement. And then you have what
David does, this brilliant work that David does.

Oprah: Our son, in the
movie.

Forest: Our son.

Lee: Yeah.

Forest: He's protesting
actively. He's aggressively acting but he's searching for his
protest because what he understands what you see in his character
is, is that he has to state something.

Oprah: What is so fantastic
to me about this film and I didn't realize it when I was doing it
and I certainly didn't see it when I read the script and I could
feel some of it but exactly what you're saying is true about the
protest that different people had their own ways of protesting and
that in our culture we celebrate those whose names made the history
books.

EXCERPT: How Butlers and
Maids Paved the Way for Oprah and Forest Whitaker

Oprah: None of us would be
sitting here today had there not been the maids and the butlers,
none of us would be. So now what’s your response to that?

Forest: I agree. You know,
just taking aside the part of whether we should look at this
occupation in a negative way in the first place, of whether it has a
dignity of service that we need to recognize.

Oprah: Yes. And that --
that in the way that we portray this family and that you so
successfully bring the character to life with Eugene Allen through
Cecil Gaines is, is that look at the heart of that. Look at the
strength and the power and the dignity that we held as families
everyday that's what is so amazing to me.

Forest: I think what's
brilliant about what you did and what was brilliant about your
performance is again you're showing the struggle, your alcoholism,
your issues with you know not in your affairs and things like that.
You're showing what the struggle is with internalizing what the real
struggle is through your, through your character.

EXCERPT: Actor David Oyelowo
Describes His Mother's Reaction

David: So my mom, she
doesn’t know how to delineate between reality and what happens in
the movies. So, for instance, when I did this film “Red Tails” she
saw it and this big historical film and I thought mummy, what did
you think? “I do not like this movie.”

Oprah: <laughs>

David: I said why? “Why do
you have to die? Why do you have to die in this movie? I don’t like
what Hollywood is doing to my son.” So I was like is that all you
got from the two hours of the movie. “I do not like this movie.” So
then there was another film I did called “Small Island” with Naomie
Harris, again, a beautiful film called “Small Island.” And we play
husband and wife in it and there’s a bedroom scene in it.

Oprah: Yeah.

David: Beautiful film.
Mummy, what did you think of the film? “I do not like this movie.” I
said, why? “This is promiscuity and fornication on the film. Does
this actress know that you are married.” So that is what I dealt
with that. So you can imagine when I’m thinking when I’m about to
tell her that I’m going to do this film and Oprah Winfrey is going
to play my mother. I’m expecting a similar reaction. I said, mummy,
okay, someone else is going to be playing my mother in this film. I
said, and it’s Oprah Winfrey. She goes, “Oh, this is perfect. This
is absolutely perfect.”

<group laughter>

David: So that’s a big
compliment to you.

Oprah: Yeah, I got mother
approval from your mother.

David: Yes, you did. That’s
great.

About Oprah’s Next Chapter:

“Oprah’s
Next Chapter” is the award-winning primetime series featuring Oprah
Winfrey as she steps outside of the studio for riveting,
enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers,
celebrities, thought leaders and real-life families. “Oprah’s Next
Chapter” is produced by Harpo Studios. Join the conversation on
Twitter using #NextChapter.